Tuesday, 31 March 2009

Conductive Pedagogical Renaissance

We are living in a time where every single structure, as we know it is changing around us. Every singles person feels it and knows it. The polarities around us are stretching and stretching more and more. Humanity has come to an age where it is questioning everything, not because it wants to, but because it has to…


“Methods that simultaneously heal and educate were born in human-centred age of the Renaissance. Renaissance Man believed in the effect of systematic education, especially in the case of the disabled. The basic requirements of education were firm discipline, ardent practice, moral education and of course no overload.”-

“ Petö called his method ‘conductive Pedagogy’. As for the how and why Ilona Székely the first leading conductor tells us the following:
Many a time he held so called open sessions. During these he gave new tasks to the group, but the exact way in which he helped, ‘facilitated, we had to make up for ourselves. We had to help that we were not actually helping. This is hard to understand but it is what Conductive Education is, leading, directing. The solitary violinist needs no conductor: the sheet of music and his own soul direct the making of music. This is what conduction is.” J Forrai 1999

In this delicious existence of abundance, opportunities are available to us all who are living and working in the heart of the Conductive Pedagogical System.
We know in our souls what are our desires, what truly drives us.
The soul only understands inclusion, which directs the making of the music, directs the creation of arts and it knows what makes our existence worthwhile on this physical plane. There is nothing that can stop it only we ourselves can stand in its way.

Only We can create the Conductive Pedagogical Renaissance.

Reference:

Forrai, J. (1999) Memoirs of the beginnings of Conductive Education and András Pető, Budapest and Birmingham, Uj Aranhíd and Foundation for Conductive Education

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